Presentations

Some slides/posters are linked here. For those that are not, please contact me at obakay@umass.edu.

Psycholinguistics

(2024) The role of c-command in processing a preverbal anaphor in Turkish. Talk w/ Faruk Akkus and Brian Dillon at the 9th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, Cornell University. [slides]

(2024) Investigating syntactic effects in NPI illusions in Turkish w/ Metehan Oguz at the 9th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, Cornell University. [poster]

(2023) The role of structural cues and recency in processing a preverbal anaphor in Turkish. Poster presentation w/ Faruk Akkus and Brian Dillon at the 29th AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) Conference, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastian, Spain. [poster]

(2023) Predicting disjoint reference: offline and online evidence. Poster presentation w/ Jon Burnsky, Maayan Keshev, Mariam Asatryan, Kyle Johnson and Brian Dillon at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), University of Pittsburgh. [poster] [abstract].

(2022) Logophoric readings in long-distance binding of Turkish reflexives. Talk at ECO-5,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

(2022) C-command effects in binding third-person reflexives and pronoun in Turkish. Poster presentation w/ Brian Dillon at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), UC Santa Cruz (poster presentation at the satellite event at the University of Maryland). [slides] [abstract]

(2021) Case interference and phrase length effects in processing Turkish center-embeddings. Virtual poster presentation w/ Nazik Dinctopal Deniz at the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Pennsylvania. [slides] [abstract]

(2021) The role of animacy in processing ditransitive verbs in Turkish [in Turkish]. Virtual talk w/ Didem Kurt at the 34th National Linguistics Congress (UDK) in Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

(2021) An investigation of late closure in adverb attachment preferences of L1 and L2 speakers of Turkish. Virtual talk w/ Dr. Ayse Gurel at the 20th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL) in Eskisehir, Turkey.

(2020) Missing-verb illusion in Turkish center-embeddings? An investigation of case interference and phrase lengths. Virtual poster presentation w/ Nazik Dinctopal Deniz at the 24th AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) Conference, University of Potsdam. [slides] [abstract]

NLP in Turkish

(2021) Turkish WordNet KeNet. Virtual paper presentation w/ Ozlem Ergelen, Elif Sarmis, Selin Yildirim, Bilge Nas Arican, Atilla Kocabalcioglu, Merve Ozcelik, Ezgi Saniyar, Oguzhan Kuyrukcu, Begum Avar and Olcay Taner Yildiz at the 11th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC).

(2019) Integrating Turkish Wordnet KeNet to Princeton WordNet: The Case of One-to-Many Correspondences. Paper presentation w/ Ozlem Ergelen and Olcay Taner Yildiz at the Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (ASYU), in Izmir, Turkey.

(2019) Problems Caused by Semantic Drift in WordNet Synset Construction. Paper presentation w/ Ozlem Ergelen and Olcay Taner Yildiz at the 4th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK), in Samsun, Turkey. 

Laz

(2018) The Current Status of the Laz Language and the Laz-Speaking Communities in Turkey [in Turkish]. Talk w/ Belma Haznedar and Ismail Avci at the 32th National Linguistics Congress (UDK) in Izmir, Turkey.

Second Language

(2018) Non-native speakers’ perceptions of the intelligibility of Turkish in Turkey. Talk w/ Elif Bozyigit, Gülsah Sobucali, Selin Yildirim and Yasemin Bayyurt at the 19th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL) in Astana, Kazakhstan.